TY  - GEN
T1  - Feminist film theory : a reader
A2  - Thornham, Sue
A2  - Thornham, Sue
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm43477404
AB  - Brings together the key statements from the main debates in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970 Divided into six sections for ease of use: Taking up the Struggle; The Language of Theory; The Female Spectator; Textual Negotiations; Fantasy, Horror and the Body; Re-Thinking DifferencesAn introduction setting out the key debates in feminist film theoryIntroductions to each sectionThe book maps the impact of major theoretical developments - structuralist and semiotic theory; psychoanalysis; theories of ideology, language and discourse - on this growing field, in terms of both theoretical shifts and changes in methodologies. The relationship of feminist film theory to feminist media and cultural studies is outlined, as is the relationship between developments in feminist film theory and feminist film making. Includes readings from Laura Mulvey, Jacqueline Rose, Mary Ann Doane, Tania Modleski, Annette Kuhn, Jackie Stacey, Elizabeth Cowey, Linda Williams, bell hooks, Teresa de Lauretis. For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation and identity have been fought. This anthology seeks to chart the history of those debates, bringing together the key statements in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970. The book maps the impact of major theoretical developments in this growing field - from structuralism and psychoanalysis to post-colonial theory, queer theory and postmodernism in the 1990s - interms of both theoretical shifts and changes in methodologies. Organised into six sections, the readings deal with a wide range of topics: oppressive images; woman" as fetishised object of desire; female spectatorship; film audiences; issues of fantasy and desire in popular film; and the cinematic pleasures of black women and lesbian women. The centrality of a feminist "politics of vision" unites all the readings in this book.Key Features"
OP  - 361
CN  - PN1995.9.W6 F465 2011
SN  - 0585159173
SN  - 9780585159171
SN  - 9781474473224
SN  - 1474473229
SN  - 9780748609598
SN  - 0748609598
SN  - 0748608907
SN  - 9780748608904
KW  - Feminism and motion pictures.
KW  - Women in motion pictures.
KW  - Feminist film criticism.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Féminisme et cinéma.
KW  - Femmes au cinéma.
KW  - Critique cinématographique féministe.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - Feminism and motion pictures
KW  - Feminist film criticism
KW  - Women in motion pictures
ER  -